Bill
Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2020-06-11. Industrial Relations portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industrial Relations
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2019-12-04
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- third reading — 2019-12-05
- third reading — 2019-12-05
- third reading — 2019-12-05
- introduced — 2019-12-05
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- other — 2020-06-11
Divisions
- Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Amendment (Ensuring Integrity No. 2) Bill 2019 - Second Reading - Put the question — 2019-12-04, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 71, noes 65
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2019-12-04.5.1) *that the resumption of the debate be made an order of the day for the next sitting.* — 2019-12-04, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 75, noes 63
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-12-04.
The bill aims to strengthen rules for unions and employer groups after a royal commission found widespread misconduct.
It would let a court disqualify officers and cancel an organisation's registration for serious or repeated law-breaking, and require a public interest test for some mergers.
A new automatic disqualification would apply to anyone convicted of a criminal offence carrying a prison term of five years or more.
- Creates a new category of prescribed offence for automatic disqualification from office.
- Gives the Federal Court power to disqualify officers on application by the Registered Organisations Commissioner.
- Allows the Federal Court to cancel an organisation's registration on several grounds.
- Expands the grounds for court-ordered remedial action, including appointing an administrator.
- Requires the Fair Work Commission to apply a public interest test to amalgamations based on compliance history.
- Directs the minister to commission an independent review of the amendments after two years.
Registered employee and employer organisations and their officers.
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